2010 Asian Development Tour

The 2010 Asian Development Tour was the inaugural season of the Asian Development Tour, the official development tour to the Asian Tour.

2010 Asian Development Tour season
Duration28 January 2010 (2010-01-28) – 6 November 2010 (2010-11-06)
Number of official events5
Order of MeritMalaysia S. Siva Chandhran
2011

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2010 season.[1][2]

DateTournamentHost countryPurse
(US$)
Winner[lower-alpha 1]Other
tours[lower-alpha 2]
31 JanAir Bagan Myanmar MastersMyanmar75,000Australia Gavin Flint (1)
18 JulNegeri Sembilan Masters InvitationalMalaysiaRM500,000Malaysia S. Siva Chandhran (1)
29 AugBallantine's Taiwan ChampionshipTaiwan90,000Taiwan Lin Wen-tang (1)TWN
24 SepKariza ClassicIndonesia60,000Thailand Thanyakon Khrongpha (1)
6 NovBali OpenIndonesia60,000Philippines Juvic Pagunsan (1)

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.[3] The top three players on the tour earned status to play on the 2011 Asian Tour.[4]

PositionPlayerPrize money ($)
1Malaysia S. Siva Chandhran27,969
2Taiwan Hsu Chia-jen17,291
3Malaysia Akhmal Tarmizee15,209
4Australia Gavin Flint15,000
5South Korea T. J. Kim12,293

Notes

  1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Asian Development Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Asian Development Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the Asian Tour.
  2. TWN − Taiwan PGA Tour.

References

  1. "2010 Tournament schedule". Asian Development Tour. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  2. "Tour to unearth future stars". Asian Development Tour. Archived from the original on 9 May 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  3. "2010 Order of Merit". Asian Development Tour. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  4. "Pagunsan clinches Bali Open crown". The Philippine Star. 7 November 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2023. At the close of the inaugural Asian Development Tour season, Malaysia's Akhmal Tarmizee clung on to third place on the Order of Merit to join countryman S. Siva Chandhran and Chinese Taipei's Hsu Chia-jen in outright entry to the tour next season.
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